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Social Psych Ch 02
Social Psych Chapter 2
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Conditions of Uncertainty | Where the "correct" answer is difficult to know or would take a great deal of effort to determine |
| Prototype | Consisting of the attributes possessed by other members of each of these occupations |
| Representativeness Heuristic | A strategy for making judgements based on the extent to which current stimuli or events resemble other stimuli or categories |
| Base Rates | The frequency with which given events or patterns occur in the total population |
| Availability Heuristic | A strategy for making judgements on the basis of how easily specific kinds of info can br brought to mind |
| Anchoring and Adjustment | Heuristic that involves the tendency to use a number of value as a starting point to which we then make adjustments |
| Schemas | Mental frameworks that help us to organize social info, and that guide our actions and the processing of info relevant to those contexts |
| Attention | What info we notice |
| Encoding | The processes through which info we notice gets stored in memory |
| Retrieval | The processes through which we recover info from memory in order to use it in some manner |
| Cognitive Load | When we are trying to handle a lot of info at one time |
| Priming | A situation that occurs when stimuli or events increase the availability in memory or consciousness of specific types of info held in memory |
| Unpriming | Refers to the fact that the effects of the schemas tend to persist until they are somehow expressed in thought or behavior and only then do their effects decrease |
| Perseverance Effect | The tendency for beliefs and schemas to remain unchanged even in the face of contradictory information |
| Metaphors | Linguistic devices that relate a typically abstract concept to another dissimilar concept |
| Automatic Processing | Occurs when, after extensive experience with a task or type of info, we reach the stage where we can perform the task or process the info in a seemingly effortless, automatic, and nonconscious manner |
| Optimistic Bias | A powerful predisposition to overlook risks and expect things to turn out well |
| Overconfidence Barrier | The tendency to have more confidence in the accuracy of our own judgements than is reasonable |
| Counterfactual Thinking | The tendency to imagine other outcomes in a situation than the ones that actually occurred; "What might have been" |
| Magical Thinking | Thinking involving assumptions that don't hold up to rational scrutiny |
| Terror Management | Our efforts to come to terms with certainty of our own death and its unsettling implications |
| Law of Similarity | law that suggests that things that resemble one another share basic properties |
| Mood Congruence Effects | The fact that we are more likely to store or remember positive info when in a positive mood and negative info when in a negative mood |
| Mood Dependent Memory | The fact that what we remember while in a given mood may be determined, in part, by what we learned when previously in that mood |
| Affective Forecasts | Predictions about how we would feel about an event we have not experienced |
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